Grand Rounds Schedule

Location: Online (via Zoom)

Date/Time: Thursdays, 10:30 am to Noon

Fall 2023

Date

Presenter(s) & Discussant(s)

Title of Presentation

September 14th, 2023

Jeffrey Akman, MD
Interim Chair
Professor of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Health

Amir Afkhami, MD, PhD
Director of Medical Education
Program
Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs
Professor of Psychiatry

Benedicto Borja, MD
Director of Residency Training
Program
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

 

"Update: GW Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral Health"

September 21st, 2023

Gerald P. Perman, MD
Clinical Professor
Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Health
GWU School of Medicine

“Jacques Lacan: The Best and Least
Known Psychoanalyst”

September 28th, 2023

Sierra Carter, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Georgia State University

 

Jerry M. Wiener, MD Endowed Lecture
for Psychiatric Education

"Black People Deserve to Grow Old:
Racial Trauma, Accelerated Aging, and
the Promotion of Health Equity-Focused
Research"

October 5th, 2023

Stevan M. Weine, MD
Professor of Psychiatry & Director,
Center for Global Health
University of Illinois College of
Medicine

“Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made
Revolutionary Poetry from Madness”

October 19th, 2023

James L. Griffith, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and
Neurology
Vice Chair for Education
George Washington University

Case Review Conference

October 26th, 2023

George J. Makari, MD
Director
DeWitt Wallace Institute of
Psychiatry
History, Policy, and the Arts,
Professor of Psychiatry,
Weill Medical College of Cornell
University

 

Daniel Prager, MD Endowed Lecture in
Psychoanalysis

“Of Fear and Strangers: On the Problem
of Xenophobia.”

November 2nd, 2023

Samuel O. Okpaku, MD, PhD
President & Founder
Center for Health, Culture and
Society Nashville
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University

 

“Revisiting Global Mental Health
Implications for Humanitarian and Ethics”

November 9th, 2023

Chynere Best, PhD
Senior Research Associate
Center for Global Mental Health
EQUITY
The George Washington University

"Integrating Global Mental Health
Interventions into Community-Based
Organizations in New York City:
Challenges and Opportunities for the DC
Area"

November 16th, 2023 TBD TBD
November 30th, 2023 Henry R. Kranzler, MD
Karl E. Rickels Professor of
Psychiatry
Director, Center for Studies of
Addiction
University of Pennsylvania
Perelman School of Medicine
“Studies of Substance Use Disorders in the Million Veterans Program”
December 7th, 2023 Mark Olfson, MD, MPH
Elizabeth K Dollard Professor of
Psychiatry, Medicine and Law
Professor of Epidemiology
Columbia University Irving Medical
Center
Research Psychiatrist
New York State Psychiatric Institute

Seymour Perlin, MD Endowed Lecture
for Suicidology

“Suicide Risks of US Health Care
Workers”

December 14th, 2023

Robin Toler, MD
Medical Director of Inpatient
Behavioral Health Unit
George Washington University
Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University

Andrew Matz, MD
Inpatient Psychiatrist
George Washington University
Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
George Washington University

Case Review Conference

Accreditation

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing education for physicians. The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity.

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences designates this continuing medical education activity for 1.5 credit hours in Category 1 of the Physicians' Recognition Award of the American Medical Association. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

CME certificates will not be issued on an activity-by-activity basis. However, a transcript of CME credits earned through GW grand rounds may be requested from the Office of Continuing Education in the Health Professions by calling 202-994-4285.